By Holger Kolb, Henrik Egbert

Over the process their interplay, economics and migration study have handled one another with mutual indifference. whilst migration examine tried to overstretch its bounds, economics decreased its analytical scope to these components that initially appeared to belong to the true monetary sphere. This quantity considers 11 case experiences that goal to beat the bogus barrier among the 2 disciplines by way of utilising the industrial way to migratory phenomena, using monetary theories on the way to clarify migratory styles, and in regards to the constitution and improvement of markets as the most important to the shaping of inhabitants shares and the stream of migrants.

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A. & E. U. Choudhri (1987): ‘International migration versus foreign investment in the presence of unemployment’, Journal of International Economics 23: 329342. Calvo, G. A. (1978): ‘Urban unemployment and wage determination in LDC’s: trade unions in the Harris-Todaro model’, International Economic Review 19: 65-81. Card, D. (1990): ‘The impact of the Mariel boatlift on the Miami labor market’, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43: 245-257. — (2001): ‘Immigration inflows, native outflows, and the local labor market impacts of higher immigration’, Journal of Labor Economics, 19: 22-64.

See Razin and Sadka (1995) and Wellisch and Walz (1998) among others. Hunt (1992) uses the immigrant inflows of Algerian repatriates after the Algerian civil war as natural experiment while Friedberg (2001) concentrates on the Russian immigration towards Israel. Both studies analyse the impact of immigration inflows on national labour markets. In contrast, Angrist and Kugler (2003) find a negative effect of immigration in combination with less flexible labour market institutions. For example, highly skilled immigrants might work in low-skilled occupations in the first years after their arrival because of a lack of language proficiency.

1998), ‘Why do new technologies complement skills? Directed technical change and wage inequality’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 114: 1055-1089. 42 CHRISTIAN LUMPE Altonji, J. G. & D. Card (1991), ‘The effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of less-skilled natives’, in J. M. Abowd & R. B. ), Immigration, trade and the labor market, 201-234, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Angrist, J. D. & A. D. Kugler (2003), ‘Protective or counter-productive? Labour market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives’, The Economic Journal 113: 302-331.

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